Chapter 43: A Very Challenging City

Zhao Wan is very smart, but it's a pity that her experience is a big flaw, she clearly knows that she shouldn't interfere in Tie Xinyuan's affairs. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But under the pretext that Ouyang Xiu cared about Tie Xinyuan, she chose to interfere, and her way of interfering was very smart.

Whether it is the clumsy story of their Zhao family that can't stand up to scrutiny, or the dilapidated land temple in front of her, it shows that she has been very attentive.

It could be seen that she was trying to avoid hurting Tie Xinyuan's self-esteem.

This cautious way of doing things, like a little white rabbit trying to comfort a big bad wolf, made Tie Xinyuan's heart full of pity.

Ouyang Xiu, this old guy is very inauthentic.

This old guy has probably left his discipline in Da Song, and it is the dark side of this guy's heart that came to Hami.

The killing of the grass-headed Tatars, the co-optation of the grass-headed Tatars, and the erasure of the national character of the grass-headed Tatars are all related to needs and have nothing to do with race.

As smart as Ouyang Cultivator, it was impossible for him not to fail to see the truth in this, but he must use slaughter as an excuse to question Tie Xinyuan's personality integrity.

This shows that this old guy made a mistake that any civil official of the Great Song Dynasty would make, that is, he wanted the emperor to hand over some power, and finally achieve the goal of sharing the world with scholars and doctors.

Tie Xinyuan always felt that the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty had obsessive-compulsive disorder, they couldn't see the existence of a regime that was inconsistent with their own, as long as they saw it, to the point where they could reach it, they wanted to truncate and make up for their weaknesses, and finally make all the countries into cakes that came out of the same mold as the Great Song Dynasty.

Revolutionary output, this word is very terrifying, in Tie Xinyuan's impression, it is this word that caused the world of later generations to hover on the verge of destruction for fifty years, and now, the people of the Great Song Dynasty also want to do this.

Maybe the original intention of doing this was good, after all, Ouyang Xiu's conduct was flawless except for the romance.

However, the mentality of looking down on all beings implied in this behavior made Tie Xinyuan feel that they were all patients.

Tie Xinyuan deliberately stopped when he led the convoy to the sandstone mountain, and decided to camp here tonight, without having to travel day and night.

Compared to the humble temple built by Zhao Wan, the Throne of Dry Bones built by the two Tibetan masters has been transformed into a temple with three tall houses, and three elderly masters live in the temple.

When Tie Xinyuan arrived here, he happened to see the three lamas carrying water bottles on their shoulders and coming back from twenty miles away.

Their eyes were glazed, and when they saw the large group of men and horses, there was no expression of joy or fear on their faces.

When Wei Chiwen gave them a bunch of rich gifts, the eldest master handed over the water bottle with his thin hand.

This is probably the best hospitality they can give to their guests.

The huge throne of dry bones that was shaped by the hands of the two masters, Zakya and Compal, became even more magnificent.

On the ground in front of the throne, a hundred and ten dry bones and arms emerged from the ground, all of them with open palms, as if to climb the tall throne.

The dry bones were black and swarthy, exuding an extremely unpleasant smell, and after smelling them carefully, Tie Xinyuan figured out that someone had evenly smeared these dry bones with asphalt, and the asphalt reflecting the black light made the horror brought by these dry bones even stronger.

Tie Xinyuan had long ago asked the two outer masters, Sakya and Compal, what it meant to build this Throne of Dry Bones near the red sandstone.

The two bald donkeys sold the guanzi, one pointed his finger at his head and smiled silently, while the other beat his heart in pain and wailed.

The Buddhists' sharp iron heart source is not good at it, and he doesn't have the heart to carefully study the purpose of doing this, he only knows one thing, if he really studies the performance art of these two bald donkeys with his heart, he will really lose.

Curiosity is the original sin of mankind, and it was only after Adam and Eve suffered the great loss of curiosity that they were expelled from paradise by God.

Tie Xinyuan lived well in his own paradise, and if he thought about the Throne of Dry Bones and the pantomime of Zechar and Compal the two, maybe an apple tree would grow in his heartless paradise, and finally lead him to follow the path of Eve and Adam.

Therefore, people, if you have nothing to do, don't think about things that have nothing to do with you and your life.

Generally speaking, since becoming the king of Hami, Tie Xinyuan has hated those smart people very much, and hates those who are out of line. Hates all people who are able to think for themselves and are able to act autonomously.

The class is different, the position is naturally different, whether the society can continue to develop and he has no half-dime relationship, he only hopes that his people will always be disciplined, even if the society regresses to the era of Ru Mao drinking blood.

Zhao Wan didn't like the alternative bloody art left behind by the two Guru Sakya Rinpo.

She believes that when people die, they should be buried properly, and that some people cry twice on the grave during the New Year's holidays, rather than being dug up from the ground to make art.

The three idiots-like masters don't see anything outstanding on the surface, even if they spontaneously dance a great god in order to thank Tie Xinyuan for donating food and cloth to the temple, there is nothing special about it.

Aside from the commendable masks, the cow bone bells and zombie-like dances are not much to praise.

However, Zhao Wan still watched the dance from beginning to end, and she has always performed in a royal style in the gloomy, savage, and messy drum music.

At least, the last sentence of "reward", the voice dragged on neither long nor short, just right, and successfully made the zombie-like faces of the three masters a little more human.

The bright moon of the Gobi Desert was high at night, Zhao Wan had already slept very sweetly, but Tie Xinyuan did not sleep, and after inspecting the camp, he followed a master into the red sandstone.

Perhaps there were too many people who died here that year, and their carrion added a lot of fertility to the red sandstone, so that a lot of ice grass grew in the crevices of the red sandstone.

The grass has slender branches and rough, jagged structures on both sides of the veins, which can scratch the skin exposed on the outside of clothing if you are not careful.

Yu Chiwen followed behind like a monkey, and when it came to his familiarity with this place, he was even more than Tie Xinyuan.

Being able to make loose sandstone into a gate requires a lot of skill, and Yu Chiwen just pulled a rope, and a huge piece of sandstone automatically slid to the side, revealing a swarthy hole.

The old master lit the torch in his hand and led the way in front, and Tie Xinyuan followed him down the stairs.

The further you go inside, the more spacious the cave becomes, and the fewer traces of artificiality, and after two hundred steps, a huge cave with brilliant lights appears in front of Tie Xinyuan.

More than a hundred busy monks turned a deaf ear to Tie Xinyuan's arrival, and still used the axes in their hands to chisel against the red sandstone in front of them.

"How long will it take to get through the water veins?"

Tie Xinyuan reached out and stroked the damp sandstone wall and asked Yu Chiwen.

"The water for drinking water has been opened through the water hole, and there is plenty of water, and Master Zechar is right in his guess, there is an underground river here, and if we can dig through the sandstone mountain, we can build a qanats from this place. Make full use of the land in this area.

So as to achieve the purpose of connecting my Hami things together. ”

Tie Xinyuan patted the sandstone and sighed: "Eight hundred miles of Hanhai, the difficulty of flying birds, the food and water carried by the caravan will account for more than half of the camel's load, if a city can be built in the area of the sandstone mountain, the food and water that the caravan needs to carry can be reduced by half, which means that they can carry more goods."

At the same time, with this city, it is very beneficial for us to communicate with Western Xia and Qingtang.

It's a pity that there are good and bad, and this Hanhai is also our natural barrier, which can help us defend against the vicious Tangut people.

Once this city appeared, the cavalry of Western Xia would have one more supply place, and the journey of three or four hundred miles was nothing to the cavalry of Western Xia.

Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages of building a city here are just as obvious.

Xiaowen, do you think my decision to build a qanats here was right or wrong? ”

Wei Chiwen said resolutely: "We can't stop developing because we are afraid of a strong enemy, if that's the case, we might as well shrink in a turtle shell to be more stable."

The country of Hami Qingxiang will never be able to prosper. ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said: "Yes, that's the truth, in general, development is the last word."

Self-containment is the way to death for a country! ”

The conversation between Tie Xinyuan and Yu Chiwen did not avoid the old monk, and the old monk didn't seem to care, and casually inserted the torch in his hand into the hole in the sandstone.

I took the hammer and chisel from the tool basket and began to dig through the sandstone around me again and again.

With each hammer, a large area of sandstone falls, and it is not very difficult to dig a hole in the sandstone, but it is necessary to leave a lot of supporting pillars.

"Guru Zaga said that he had searched the land in this area twice, and the most suspicious thing was the disappearance of the Mijia River, which disappeared very strangely, and it made no sense for such a big river to change from a raging river to a gurgling stream in two miles.

The only thing that can be explained is that the Mijia River flowed into the ground not long after it left Hami.

Master Sakya also deliberately set off along this place where the poplar on the Gobi had the best growth, and finally came to the place where the Mijia River disappeared, proving that his guess was justified.

If the water of the Mijia River has not suffered much loss, we will be able to continue to dig qanats along the underground passage of the Mijia River, and such a large area will definitely become a land of fish and rice in a few years. ”

Tie Xinyuan laughed, touched Wei Chiwen's head and said, "I don't need you to impress me with benefits, my original intention will not change, you don't have to worry that I will become those weak emperors of the Song Kingdom." (To be continued.) )